Sex with a sperm donor – the latest fertility ‘treatment’

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Kathryn Knight

Last updated at 12:01AM, April 16 2011

How far would you go to have a baby? Despite the risks, single women are bypassing clinics and seeking donors online

The number of single women who are seeking fertility treatment is soaring.
According to the fertility industry’s regulatory body, the Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the number of single women
undergoing IVF rose from 347 in 2007 to 1,070 in 2009; while nearly 20 per
cent of women using sperm donors are single. But now a worrying new trend is
emerging, that of “natural insemination”, whereby these childless women are
so desperate to conceive that they are prepared to bypass clinics altogether
and have sex with donors they meet on the internet.